Right square in the middle of the deadliest part of the venn diagram.
He got the violence that he came for.
Posted on 02/02/2026 11:21:53 AM PST by V_TWIN
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says he “saw no evidence” to back the claims of senior Trump administration officials that Alex Pretti was attempting to assault law enforcement officers and instead “saw a man that was retreating” when he was shot and killed by federal officers in Minneapolis.
“I saw no evidence — I saw a man that was retreating. He went to the middle of the street, he didn’t even obstruct traffic, he let a car go through. As the agents advanced on him, he retreated to the side of the street. A woman is violently pushed to the ground and he turns to help her and that’s when he is grabbed from behind,” Paul told Scott Pelley on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
“I saw no evidence of him assaulting the police,” Paul said, contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who called Pretti a “domestic terrorist” and claimed he wanted to “inflict maximum damage on individuals and kill law enforcement.”
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I really like Paul but retreating? Dude was actively resisting arrest while armed.
“I saw no evidence of him assaulting the police,””
Physically interfering with a LE detention is a form of assault.
Maybe not legally but there are several related felonies that could be charged.
They had every reason to render him safe. A smart move also. He was armed with a convient pistol ready to fire with only a pull on the trigger.
A cop got shoved and he was pushed into Rand Paul. There was no physical contact between Rand Paul, or his wife with any of the protesters. And of course the idiots were wearing masks on the street.
ONLY 11 DAYS EARLIER
He’s simply trying to sabotage Trump.
I saw a man who was breaking the hell out of a woman.
Am I hallucinating? The first moment I saw it he tried to tackle that woman, drag her to the ground. Agents pulled him off of her.
Do I live in an alternate reality? Did anyone else see this?
SURRENDER MONKEY!
Wonder why he’s not screaming Insurrection this time?
Also, John Oliver, in his time with the daily show, exposed Rand Paul as a fraud who established fake committees that only he was part of to give himself awards.
The Kentucky contingent is paid off by China.
Oh! I forgot!
Rand Paul said in an interview that he has no problems with weaponized drones shooting people who rob convenience stores.
Randcid is a lying POS. KY can do better.
Paul has never been anything more than a contrarian.
Pretti was in the wrong. He screwed around and FO. But I have heard no one else besides you say that he was doing anything except lend a helping hand to the lady you mention. She was a protester, too, and has spoken out.
Politicians like Rand Paul will always say what the media wants to hear.
OPTHAMOLOGIST: Senator, I see what the problem is. You have difficulty seeing things because the walls of your rectum are in the way.
Is he not an ophthalmologist?
Can we swop him for Fetterman?
Could somebody please enlighten me as to WTF is so special about Rand Paul?
WTF has he accomplished in his years in the Senate?
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